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Driving support device

  • US 9,922,558 B2
  • Filed: 11/03/2016
  • Issued: 03/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A driving support device that is connected with a control device, a positioning unit and a driver-state detection device and that communicates with a dangerous-spot analysis device, the control device outputting a behavior signal indicating that a dangerous behavior of a vehicle occurred, the positioning unit acquiring positional information on the vehicle, the driver-state detection device outputting driver information indicating a state of a driver of the vehicle, the dangerous-spot analysis device specifying a risky spot based on dangerous-spot information that is sent from a plurality of vehicles, the dangerous-spot information containing positional information on a spot where a dangerous behavior occurred,the driving support device comprising:

  • a dangerous-spot notification unit that acquires the behavior signal from the control device and that sends the dangerous-spot information to the dangerous-spot analysis device;

    a state judgment unit that acquires the driver information from the driver-state detection device and that judges whether the state of the driver is a state of increasing a risk, based on the driver information; and

    a warning unit that warns of approach to the risky spot in a case where there is a possibility of passing through the risky spot specified by the dangerous-spot analysis device and where the state judgment unit judges that the state of the driver is the state of increasing the risk, whereinthe driver-state detection device is a device that monitors information about rides of the driver, andbased on a regularity of previous rides of the driver, the state judgment unit judges that the state of the driver is the state of increasing the risk, in a case where a current ride deviates from the regularity of the previous rides of the driver by a predetermined value or more.

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